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I once shared a lift with her, just the two of us, a young man's dream. But by then we were both in our seventies. Yes about the surgeon's help but who of our own female movie stars over 50 hasn't had help? Their appearance is part of their work kit.

After a colonoscopy (clear fortunately) my surgeon recommended sprinkling powdered psyllium husks on my cereal. That was ten years ago and for me constipation is a word in the dictionary, not that it was ever a problem, but now in my nineties it might have been without his advice. BTW, sourcing...

It would need a strange owner to pay $270,000 for a coin and then use it as legal tender for $2,500. The gold alone in it is worth $37,000.

Yes to the preserving checkout petition.

The late queen didn't need a passport but I worked with a member of the British aristocracy who arrived here without a visa. He explained at the airport that he didn't need a visa. He was correct but they didn't believe him so he was there a while before they checked and found he was correct.

Any of us who have spent a lifetime in the IT industry have known for decades how fragile are the systems on which we are so dependent, and well before the internet came along, which has only increased the risk. As for the impact on cash, regardless of systems there will be a need for cash into...

Having missed out on making it onto the team in 1956 I managed to score a slot as a press attache. It's too long ago to remember what my duties were but I had access everywhere. Although subsequently I've been to many Olympic and Commonwealth Games, my outstanding memories are from 1956: 1...

Touche

My problem is that I'm jealous because we came out on the last passenger ship in 1940, after which it was decided too dangerous, since we were bombed three times. So we paid full dollar (sorry, full pound) rather than the ten pounds those who followed us paid after the war.

That sounds very much like the ten pound pom complaint that fish and chips tasted different here because of the different newspaper wrapping. And guess what? Vegemite is really difficult to find in US midwest supermarkets. If you want the comforts of home then stay at home. I thought only...

I recently drove from the Blue Mountains to Sydney during the morning peak hour and was scrupulously careful to put the speed control on the limit as it changed. This meant I seemed to be crawling along with a handful of cars while hundreds, maybe even thousands, whizzed past including a blue...

In some countries the way this is calculated is impacted by the effects of Covid-19. Is this so in Australia?

The world's largest cause of death from communicable diseases, tuberculosis, had been almost stamped out in Australia. 25% of the world's TB sufferers are in India. The majority of Australians with TB are migrants. Australia's Indian population is our second largest migrant group. I am very...

How about telling us where we can get a yummy pie in Sydney. Or did none of ours make the top ten?

Another sleepless night spent worrying about this dear lady. Before you attack me please recognise a joke when it's made.

When Picasso was young he painted perfect representations of his subjects which could almost have been photographs. Later he moved on to other styles. Many artists today are not capable of excellent representaionalist works so do the best they can and pretend they meant something else. If The...

Before thinking you're setting aside traditional table manners it helps to know what you're talking about. For example, picking up chicken legs in one's fingers has been acceptable for hundreds of years, and at least in most European countries it is quite acceptable to use bread to mop up a...

I'm only writing to address the issue of balance. We have been there as family and a deux several times and have had no complaints of any kind. One visit was unfortunate in that my wife developed appendicitis on a cruise and we were offloaded for her to receive hospital attention. Given that...